Talk Like A Pirate Day: Two Entrepreneurs Cash In On Fake Holiday

How Two Entrepreneurs Cashed In On "Talk Like A Pirate Day"

Computer games, t-shirts, bicycle parts, snack foods, you name it, International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLPD) has been used to shill it. The impromptu holiday got its official start in 2002 after two friends, John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur and Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers, were catapulted into the limelight by nationally-syndicated humor columnist Dave Barry, who wrote a column on their previously personal celebration.

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